responsibility - summary

You cannot have a society [of civilized people - this is not required, really, vs] if you do away with the notion of individual responsibility -- even if it is an illusion. - Anonymous said...

but

We already have degrees of culpability and reasons for not being culpable. So if we experience intolerable provocation it is a mitigating factor when considering culpability and/or punishment; and if we are insane then we are not culpable and not punished (though we may be forced to take 'treatment' or be imprisoned to protect the public). Similarly various societies make different limits on children's culpability. - Jayarava said...

in Did My Genes Make Me Do It?